KMM #4: How to Lift Your Mood!

Hey Hey! I’m Kacie May. Today we’re talking about mood lifters.

Are you feeling crummy?

Do you feel listless?

Do you poop out at parties?

Hopefully not :/

But guess what?!

Find something that puts you in a great mood!

We can change our mood?

OH yes we can!

We are in control of our emotions.

You want to feel great as often as possible because when you feel great you attract great things.

Like attracts like.

One mood lifter I LOVE is music.

I dare you. Find that one song, that one jam that makes you feel like JAMMIN!

And I dare you: don’t even dance. Don’t move a muscle. Just sit there. Don’t even smile.

Just sit there like this (straight face).

Do it right NOW!

(You’re trying to keep a straight face, then BAM! You perk up!)

We! Are! Fa-mi-ly! I got all my sisters and me! We! Are! Fa-mi-ly! Get up everybody and SING!

We! Are! Fa-mi-ly!

You’re WELCOME! ;)

As always, thank you for reading, stay tuned, Love Yourself & Feel Beautiful, and let’s connect at KacieMay.com.

KMM #3: My Awakening

Hi everyone! I'm Kacie May.

Watch me speak.

It was 2011. I was living in L.A. pursuing fashion styling and a business venture.

I felt lost and helpless as I was struggling to find my niche, support myself, as well as make genuine friends. I also missed my family who lives all over California. I wasn't taking very good care of myself.

I started getting symptoms like the flu and asthma, and I didn’t know what was going on.  I took herbs from my Dad who's an Herbalist, and they helped at first but then stopped working and my symptoms got worse. Then I lost my appetite and started losing weight, and lost energy and strength.

I drove out to my Dad's house in Rancho Cucamonga to work on my car, and I was so physically weak I couldn't turn the crank to lift the tire. He put me to bed and wouldn't let me go back to my apartment in LA. Then he called my Mom, an RN a few days later and requested her help.

One of my brothers picked me up and drove me to my Mom's house in the Sacramento area, and it was Thanksgiving. And by the way I had nothing but the clothes on my back and my purse with me. I slept during a lot of the drive, as well as through Thanksgiving. Then I got an x-ray and found out my left lung was collapsed and that I had millimeters of trachea space left to breathe. I was near dying. I was scared, but I knew I wasn't going to die then. I knew because I believed I was in the right hands, some of those being my Mom’s.

I chose to put my life in other people's hands as I got on breathing treatments and an IV, and was transported in an ambulance to a different hospital where I stayed for 8 days and had chemotherapy and many other drugs. My whole life was turned upside down. I couldn't go back to my apartment, and thanks to my family they packed my things and put it all in storage.

For about 2 years I lived with my Mom. She was my caretaker and I took both drugs and natural treatments, and as of the day I write this I am still receiving treatments. My Mom fed me, helped me sit up in bed, bathe and walk at my worst times. My Mom is my angel.

The great news is that I consider my diagnosis and conquering Hodgkin's Lymphoma to be a blessing and my awakening. I dove into personal development more so than before, asking questions like: What kind of a person was I being for this to happen, and what is a healthier way to be? I found out that when we love ourselves, our insides reflect that.

My motto is Love Yourself & Feel Beautiful, LYFB, and it's part of the title of my upcoming eBook. It’s also hash tagged on social media. Join us and comment, follow, as well as hash tag your own media that’s LYFB!

I found out that we're all connected and here to lift each other up, to give each other a hand up, and help each other. This ongoing, morphing life experience is teaching me that I am a force to be reckoned with who's got to lead by example and pay it forward. It's my mission. Helping others to love themselves too and become amazing leaders- I feel this is my purpose. Also to live lives fully expressed. I can identify with this too, because for years I had severely repressed myself. And I am still uncovering who I truly am!

What causes repression? Fear. What I found out is that fear is false. False Evidence Appearing Real. It's a mask. An illusion. I found out that we can be whoever we want to be and do whatever we want to do. And the sooner we figure out what this means to us, the sooner we can journey this path.

So I serve as a role model for strength, leadership, empathy, courage, self love, body love, valuing your voice and vision, and probably a few other categories as well. The experience forced me to open up and connect with people more, because almost everyone I converse asks me about it as if I've come back from a war. And I have.  I'm winning because I turned it into a peace treaty.

They're curious about the experience, inspired and enlightened, so I took that as my queue to grow quicker into the leader I already know I am deep at my soul's core. The experience liberates and humbles me, and of course as Marianne Williamson says: "As we are liberated from our own fears, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same."

Introducing Kacie May's Minutes

Hey hey! Welcome everyone. I’m Kacie May.

If we don’t know each other very well yet or if we do, doesn’t matter who you are, that’s perfect. Let’s get to know each other better.

The reason for this blog is to announce a video & blog series called Kacie May’s Minutes.

And the reason it’s called Kacie May’s Minutes is because each entry & video is only a few minutes long.

You’re welcome, people with A.D.D.! Squirrel!

Anyways, I’ll be talking about 3 topics:

Number 1: Personal Development related topics.

Number 2: Personal Styling related topics: How to Love Yourself & Feel Beautiful.

Number 3: The diary of my cancer journey: Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

So come get some a nugget or two, get some value, come leave a comment, interact, and help build these beautiful communities that we’re building: How to Love Yourself & Feel Beautiful - LYFB- as well as Seacret, and then be on your way!

So as always: thank you for reading, stay tuned, and let’s connect at KacieMay.com.

Life Mentors and Coaches i.e. Titanic’s Jack & Rose

Titanic.

Jack saves Rose.

“In every way that a person can be saved”

She said she felt like she was

“Screaming at the top of her lungs and no one even bothers to look up”

She was unhappy with her life

with her relationships

her mom and fiance

living a life with not much happiness or joy.

Then Jack came in and ignited her spirit.

Realize that there are people who can help you become better if you recognize who they are and let them. These are your life mentors and coaches.

Jack saw her, was intrigued, almost immediately he started caring about her,

and it became: “You jump I jump”.

He literally helped her save her own life, and he was committed to interacting with her.

He helped her live a lighter and freer life, having more fun, dancing, riding roller coasters and horses.

His influence helped her realize she can make her own choices

instead of feeling obligated to make choices based on what another person said or what another person thinks she should do or be.

Jack’s commitment to Rose’s development

I think this is a big reason why this movie is such a success.

We all want this.

People who care about us, who bring out a better person in us, whoever they are

male, female, a lover, friend, relative, coach, mentor.

It’s about assisting in a person’s development and self actualization.

And you don’t need anyone to show you or tell you you can or cannot do something

or be or become something or someone.
Because you already got it in the bag, if you believe you do.
Henry Ford said, "If you believe you can or can't, either way you're right."

So all you really need is yourself making decisions and choices on your own behalf,

choosing what you want and living how you want to live.
And these people caring about us, helping us develop...this is a beautiful thing, too.

Rose became this person.

I am becoming this person

partly thanks to people in my life influencing me for the better, directly and indirectly.

Pay attention to who makes you better

and who you’re becoming as a result of their influence.

If you need someone like this maybe I can be this person for you.

Or maybe I know a person or people or even a beautiful, loving community who would be perfect for you.

Make it a great, loving, wonderful, luscious, abundant, prosperous, successful life

that you create,

not one that you feel obligated to.

In the comments below, tell us 3 things:

Something you’d like to be better at,

Something you’re proud of yourself for,

and the name of the person or people who are helping/helped make that a reality for you.

Thanks for reading, stay tuned, and let’s connect on KacieMay.com